fitness in focus
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Fitness in focus
Welcome to 2021! I’m sure there are many of you who are glad that 2020 is over. It
has been lovely getting to know the new students and seeing the pre-schoolers in
uniform and learning how to be in ‘big school’. The children have adapted to their
new environment exceptionally well.
Unfortunately the usual face-to-face parent information night was not able to
occur this year. Instead the teachers have created videos that are available on
our website. Please continue to contact teachers by email if you have any
concerns or alternatively, make an appointment for a meeting at school.
Over the holidays there was a lot of work happening around the school and we
now have 3 beautiful classrooms on South Campus. We are still making some
minor adjustments but the teachers and students are delighted with their new
spaces. We are also investigating the re-commissioning of the pool so that our
students can have swimming lessons onsite. We will be funding this from our
School and Community funds so any contributions will be appreciated.
Despite the small outbreaks of COVID 19 that we have had this year, we are all
starting to relax a little more now that the vaccine rollout has begun. The
Department of Education still requires a COVID safe plan to be in place for
visitors to site. After a parent survey it was decided that we would continue to wear
masks at pick-up times with so many people here at the same time. Thank you to
everyone for your co-operation. Perhaps next term we will be able to leave our masks
at home.
This term Footsteps have been visiting each Wednesday to teach physical
literacy and dancing. The students have enjoyed learning the new moves and
interacting with the very engaging presenters. The teachers have been
watching closely for new ideas to introduce into our dance program when it
resumes in week 7. A grant from Sporting Schools has also enabled us to
employ coaches for Netball who come to school on Fridays.
The dental van is coming to school on 08.03.21 to provide free dental check ups
for students K-2. Please make sure that you have your paperwork in so that
your child can participate.
To improve communication with parents AWIS will stop using Skoolbag and
move to a new app called School Stream. When the new app is up and running
we will advise you by email.
In 2020, all schools undertook a situational analysis to identify target areas for
Improvement in the 2021-2024 school plan. At AWIS we have identified
individualised expected student growth targets as a strategy to improve student
outcomes and data tracking. The draft of the new plan will be available for
consultation towards the end of term and will be communicated via email.
Vanda Quinn
Principal Term ends: Thursday 01.04.2021
Term 2 begins: Tuesday 20.04.2021
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K Yellow Tselmeg: Representing numbers –10
Aminaa: Drawing beautiful pictures
Lukas: Practicing writing his name
Naran: Being co-operative in structured play
Markus: Creating a great shape penguin
Tushig: Fantastic self portrait
2 Violet Nayla: Good compound sentence writing Tenuun: Using the glossary independently Indra: Working well with 2-digit numbers
Amyah: Knowing the features of informative text
Anand: Finding the area of surfaces
Abbas: Improving his listening skills
AWARDS
2 Beige Ali: Recognising numbers
Emma: Great work in Visual Arts
Naranbilguun: Always trying hard with his work
Mikaela: Recognising all of her open sight words
Nour: Trying hard with her work in class
Ashidmunkh: Great effort in maths
K Red Ryan: Being responsible & helpful in class
Dulguun: Wonderful drawings
Greta: Great listening skills
Zaynab: Working independently in class
Manlai: Independent with numbers 1-10
Nomi: Great participation during netball
1 Aqua Alejandro: Welcome to AWIS
Boloro: Enthusiastic during netball
Sodon: For mathematical thinking
Yesuijin: Independently writing reports
Felicity: Trying hard with writing numbers
Temka: Super effort in talking about his weekend
1 Green Liam: Being a great role model for his peers
Haydar: Best effort during writing.
Iskra: Participating in class discussions
Leah: Excellent participation in dancing
Misheel: Identifying numbers before & after
Amgalan: Using factual language in his writing
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Koalas Sondor: Cooking in the mud kitchen
Mandakh: Interest in physical play
Gegeelen: Looking after our Preschool
Maral: Settling well into Preschool
Naru: Turn-taking skills
Agaraa: Being helpful
Mahdi: Showing interest in living things
Hasan: Completing puzzles
Aieera: Packing away
Inkhjargal: Welcome to AWIS
Wesam: Interest in water play
Hassan: Painting the cubby house
Possums Oyu: Beautiful painting
Boyce: Clever counting
Anand O: Clever puzzle work
Maruko: Sorting colours
Andy: Being a good friend
Keiran: Participating in drama activity
Anand: Completing tricky puzzles
Amuna: Lovely drawings
Kareem: Being a good listener
BOOK AWARDS
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Nayla
AWARDS
Congratulations To Miss Cotter and Miss Srejic who have had their excellent teaching skills recognised and accredited through NESA.
We are all very proud of you!!
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Emuka Dulguun Alejandro Abbas Tenkhluun Joseph
SOCIAL SKILL AWARDS
January & February Birthdays……
Wesam, Argarkhatan, Urnuubileg, Fatimah, (K) Iruun,
Davaa, (P) Gegeen, Tushig, Sophia(KY) Yesyi-Ujin(KR)
Tsolmon, Tselmuun, Ashely, Ulzii(1G) Ayra(1A)
Zeinab, Mikaela, Ashidmunkh (2B)
Ermuun, Nadine– Erdene (2V)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!
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Koalas Koalas
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Possums Possums
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K Red
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K Yellow
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1 Green
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1 Aqua
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2 Beige
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2 Violet
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